James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Twin Cities Area
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City