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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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