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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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