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...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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