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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

