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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library 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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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