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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

