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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Park is 37 acres of space along Miller Creek in Duluth’s west end. Today, the park includes...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome to Hanska
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Ottawa
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lost Highway 61
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion School In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Little Falls Depot
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Old School In Wolverton
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

