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
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Old Brewery In Preston
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In 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