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
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown