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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

