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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...

