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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
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...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
The Almelund Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Brewery In Preston
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Wasioja
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 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?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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