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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

