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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
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...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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...

