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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In 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