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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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