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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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