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...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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