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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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