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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 48 School Near Delano
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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