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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Ottawa
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

