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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

