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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House 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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

