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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

