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
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor 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