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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

