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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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 The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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