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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor 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