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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist 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...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...

