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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
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...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

