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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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