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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

