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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Not much has changed at this house in Duluth. It looks pretty much the same as it did when it was...
The Almelund Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Wasioja
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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