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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
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...

