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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
The Milford Monument
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hanover Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...

