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
Landmark Center In St Paul
Landmark Center in St Paul, Minnesota, was dedicated in 1902 and originally served as the Federal...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

