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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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