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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
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...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Little Marais Inn
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

