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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

