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...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House 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...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

