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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

