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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
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
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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