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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wilder Public Baths
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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