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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Sandstone
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Old Brewery In Preston