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
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Minneapolis has many beautiful homes, but the Gale mansion is easily one of my top three. I love...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Sandstone
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The End of the Line in Currie
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Franconia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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