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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

