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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moderne New Ulm Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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