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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
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
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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