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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
September 24, 1909 At 4:20 a.m., an off-duty worker at the Fergus Falls City Light Station woke up...
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Almelund Creamery
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Ruins of Sawyer School
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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