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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown