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
The Eight Days in May Protests
For many at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus, May 9, 1972 started out like any other...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring Ottawa
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
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
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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