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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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