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 Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
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