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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Cobden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
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...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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