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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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
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