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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

