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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

