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
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Endion School In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Green Lake Mounds
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
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...
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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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