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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
After 120 years, the mystery of what happened to Clara Ober between the evening of July 29th, 1895...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
State Theater In Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
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 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
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City