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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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