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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The house at 193 N Mackubin in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was built in 1882. This Second Empire-style...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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