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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown