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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
In 1957, trucks loaded with prefabricated homes rolled along Highway 61 toward a new building site...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Old Brewery In Preston
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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