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 Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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