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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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