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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Enter Marlon Brando
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

