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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

