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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Adolph Biermann house in Rochester is the oldest documented structure in the Mayowood Historic...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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