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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Dotson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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