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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Ottawa
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

