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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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