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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

