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
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Have you ever wondered how Minnesota became known as the land of 10,000 lakes? Every Minnesotan...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In 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