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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Almelund Creamery
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
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...
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...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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