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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Church of the Holy Cross
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
The Duluth Homestead Project
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

