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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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