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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
The Preston Brewery sits at the base of a bluff along the Root River, a site known for its scenic...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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