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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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