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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State Hospital
In 1873, the State of Minnesota was looking for a way to house an increasingly problematic group of...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

