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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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