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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion 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...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

