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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
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
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

