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
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
You may remember the name Fridley because you've passed through the northern suburb of Minneapolis...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

