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...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
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
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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