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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Dotson
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Ottawa
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Article Archive
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
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston