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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Exploring Sandstone
The Duluth Homestead Project
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Church of the Holy Cross
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill 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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
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