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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hanover Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Almelund Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

