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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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