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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
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...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
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?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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