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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

