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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lost Highway 61
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Old School In Wolverton
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Green Lake Mounds
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

