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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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