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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
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