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...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

