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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Built in 1898, the West Riverside School was originally known as District #38 School. Isanti County...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moving Old Hibbing
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul