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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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