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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome to Hanska
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

