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...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
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