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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Cobden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

