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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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