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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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