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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bend in the River Regional Park
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Florence Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
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