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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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