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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Sandstone
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion Depot In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Green Lake Mounds
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Milford Monument
Endion School In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Ruins of Sawyer School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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