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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

