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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Little Marais Inn
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
The Duluth Homestead Project
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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