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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
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...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Little Falls Depot
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

