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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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
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
Old Brewery In Preston