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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Memories are made at the lake. Whether you’re lucky enough to go every weekend in the summer...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Sandstone
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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