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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...

