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 Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

