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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown