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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Harry A. Subilia was an Italian immigrant who opened the first distillery in New Ulm, Minnesota. He...
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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