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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

