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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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