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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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