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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Little Marais Inn
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Old Brewery In Preston
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion School In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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