The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Twin Cities Area
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Enter Marlon Brando
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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