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...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

