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...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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