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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

