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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown