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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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