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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

