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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Red Wing Iron Works
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

