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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
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...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

