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
The Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Florence Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Donโt...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his motherโs death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...

