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...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

