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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Red Wing Iron Works
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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