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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

