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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

