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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
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...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown