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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

