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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Greater Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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