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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
District 48 School Near Delano
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown