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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
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...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Wasioja
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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