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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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...

