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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome to Hanska
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
Red Wing Iron Works
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lost Highway 61
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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