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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
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