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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
The Old School In Wolverton
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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