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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...

