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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...

