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
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Duluth Homestead Project
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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