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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Dead Good Walks
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...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown