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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
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