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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring Ottawa
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The End of the Line in Currie
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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