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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Enter Marlon Brando
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hanover Bridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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