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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

