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
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Ottawa
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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