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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
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