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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

