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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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