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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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