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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The Milford Monument
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring Sandstone
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Meyer School In St Augusta
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Old School In Wolverton
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moving Old Hibbing
Green Lake Mounds
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Welcome to Hanska
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
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
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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