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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Visiting Golden Gate
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
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 Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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