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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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