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...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Green Lake Mounds
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
District 6 School in New Sweden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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