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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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