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 Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Le Sueur Theater on Main Street in Le Sueur, Minnesota, opened in 1884. The building was...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Oxford Mill Ruin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Cobden
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

