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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Brewery In Preston
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

