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...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Frederick E. Murphy was known as the publisher and guiding spirit of the Minneapolis Tribune...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Dotson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Cobden
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The End of the Line in Currie
Red Wing Iron Works
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

