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
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Church of the Holy Cross
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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