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