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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

