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
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
This beauty was built in 1914 and is St Paul’s largest Prairie Style house at just under 3,000...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 6 School in New Sweden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Old School In Wolverton
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Florence Town Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
District 48 School Near Delano
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Brewery In Preston
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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