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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City