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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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