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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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