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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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