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