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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

