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
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Visiting Golden Gate
Green Lake Mounds
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Cobden
District 6 School in New Sweden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
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...

