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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
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...
Hanover Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Church of the Holy Cross
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moving Old Hibbing
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

