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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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
Old Brewery In Preston