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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Little Falls Depot
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

