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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
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