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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
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...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 48 School Near Delano
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
The End of the Line in Currie
Enter Marlon Brando
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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