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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

