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
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Red Wing Iron Works
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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