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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Historic Wasioja
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
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
Old Brewery In Preston