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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
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...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome to Hanska
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
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