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...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

