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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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