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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion School In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Almelund Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital 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