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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The public library in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota was built in 1913 with a $10,000 grant from Andrew...
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Franconia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Florence Town Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

