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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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