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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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