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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...

