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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston