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
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

