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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

