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

