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
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company was incorporated in September 1870. Around 1878, company managers...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Oxford Mill was located on the bank of the Little Cannon River near Cannon Falls. When the mill...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 48 School Near Delano
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Little Marais Inn
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Florence Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Franconia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Moderne New Ulm Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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