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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

