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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Franconia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The Milford Monument
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

