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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Welcome To Old Wadena
The townsite now known as Old Wadena was located on the Crow Wing River between the mouths of the...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Red Wing Iron Works
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

