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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

