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...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul