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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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