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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
When Miller’s Station was established in 1878, the small trading post town was a steamboat stop...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Hanover Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Florence Town Hall
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Hollywood Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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