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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Old Brewery In Preston
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

