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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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