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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City