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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lost Highway 61
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Franconia
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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