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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Florence Town Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Visiting Golden Gate
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hanover Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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 Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

