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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

