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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Dotson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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