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
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
If you’ve been to Anoka, Minnesota, you might have seen this stone structure in the Rum River and...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Florence Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Green Lake Mounds
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Le Sueur Theater
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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