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’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

