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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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