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

