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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
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
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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