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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Robbinsdale Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Ottawa
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Little Falls Depot
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Milford Monument
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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