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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

