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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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