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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Wasioja
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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