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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Le Sueur Theater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Wasioja
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
District 48 School Near Delano
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown