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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Visiting Golden Gate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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