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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...

