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
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Franconia
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood Town Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Florence Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Visiting Golden Gate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Historic Wasioja
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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