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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Greater Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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