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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
The Almelund Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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