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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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