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 the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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