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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth is full of off-the-beaten-path historical gems. I was photographing another building in the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

