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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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