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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Brewery In Preston
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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