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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lost Highway 61
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Old School In Wolverton
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
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
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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