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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

