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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

