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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown