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...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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