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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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