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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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