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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Ottawa
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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