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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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