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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bend in the River Regional Park
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Ruins of Sawyer School
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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