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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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