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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
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...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Duluth Homestead Project
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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