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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
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
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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