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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286โ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Ruins of Sawyer School
The End of the Line in Currie
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Franconia
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Enter Marlon Brando
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

