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...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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