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’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Sandstone
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Red Wing Iron Works
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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