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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hanover Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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