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