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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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