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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

