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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Moving Old Hibbing
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
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...
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
Old Brewery In Preston
