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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City