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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bend in the River Regional Park is located on the former property of the Graves family. The...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Green Lake Mounds
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Sandstone
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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