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
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

