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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
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...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

