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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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