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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Little Marais Inn
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

