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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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