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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Franconia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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