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 Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Dotson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Old Wadena
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
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 The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown