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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Churchill Methodist Church is located in present-day Brookfield Township, Minnesota. The...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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