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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

