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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

