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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

