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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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