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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
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...
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
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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