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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

