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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The End of the Line in Currie
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Cobden
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

