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 Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was founded in January 1897. The church...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 6 School in New Sweden
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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