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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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