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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
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...
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
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

