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