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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

