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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

