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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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