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 Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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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