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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

