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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Sandstone
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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