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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Little Falls Depot
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Red Wing Iron Works
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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