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
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis was constructed between 1891 and 1893. It was...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Apartments
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Milford Monument
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring Sandstone
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Finding The Past In Swatara
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome to Hanska
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Cobden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Endion School In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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