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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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