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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

