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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
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...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

