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...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Visiting Golden Gate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Ottawa
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Cobden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Little Falls Depot
Moderne New Ulm Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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