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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

