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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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