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

