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
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Built between 1902 and 1904, this beautiful building on its shady lot served southeast Minneapolis...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Wasioja
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

