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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Scottish immigrant James G Craigie settled in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, along with his wife...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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