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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Dotson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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