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...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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