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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Dotson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Oxford Mill Ruin
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hanover Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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