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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown