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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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