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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge (Svenska Mission Kyrka i Sodre Maple Ridge)...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Ottawa
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Sandstone
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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