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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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