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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
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...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

