At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
The Milford Monument
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Le Sueur Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 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...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

