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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

