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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Little Falls Depot
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

