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...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
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