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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

