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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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