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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion School In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Red Wing Iron Works
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Little Marais Inn
Endion Depot In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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