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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Bally Blacksmith Shop opened in 1911 when Sam Bally left his job at a sawmill to open his own...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
The Little Marais Inn
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bend in the River Regional Park
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Milford Monument
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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