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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Red Wing Iron Works
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
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...
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...

