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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

