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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

