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