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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 48 School Near Delano
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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