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
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Although Minneapolis’ overzealous wrecking ball has claimed many of the stately old mansions...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Cobden
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Milford Monument
Florence Town Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston