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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

