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
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance Building In...
The Germania Life Insurance Building was built in 1889 at Fourth Street and Minnesota in downtown...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The District 6 school in New Sweden Township stands in a field surrounded by tall stalks of corn in...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown