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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Florence Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
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