The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Twin Cities Area
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City