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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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