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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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