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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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