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
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After one hundred and twenty years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
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