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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington 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...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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