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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Sandstone
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

