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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

