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 Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
District #28 School in Ramsey
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moving Old Hibbing
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Enter Marlon Brando
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hanover Bridge
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins 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...
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...

