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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Green Lake Mounds
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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