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...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Le Sueur Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

