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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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