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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

