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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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