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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
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...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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