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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Brewery In Preston
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hasty: A Minnesota 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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown