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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

