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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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