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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Visiting Golden Gate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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