At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Twin Cities Area
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Dotson
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Florence Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Hollywood Town Hall
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

