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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Cobden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

