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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

