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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
The Le Sueur Theater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

