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...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Wasioja
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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