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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
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