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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

