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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

