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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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