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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

