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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

