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 Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Little Falls Depot
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Franconia
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Sandstone
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
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...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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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