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

