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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

