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...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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