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

