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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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...
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