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