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...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taylor House In Le Sueur
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
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