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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
The Little Marais Inn
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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