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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

