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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township 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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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