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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

