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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

