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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Florence Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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