At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Sandstone
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

