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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
The Duluth Homestead Project
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Church of the Holy Cross
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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