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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

