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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

