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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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