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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

