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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
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...

