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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Almelund Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Ottawa
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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