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
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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