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
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
It may have been luck that spared the Colonnade Hotel the same fate as so many other old downtown...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Florence Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Enter Marlon Brando
Moderne New Ulm Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Little Marais Inn
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 donโt...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

