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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to one of the most awe-inspiring buildings in Minnesota. It’s big. It’s...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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