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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Sandstone
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 48 School Near Delano
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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