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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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