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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lost Highway 61
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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