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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
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...

