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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston