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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
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...
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Finding The Past In Swatara
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

