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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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