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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City 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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

