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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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