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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Little Marais Inn
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
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