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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
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