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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Ottawa
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
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...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill 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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

