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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...

