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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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