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 William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
William Hinkle came to Minneapolis in 1877 after graduating from Yale University. He established...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...

