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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
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...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

