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...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

