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
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium was the first medical hospital in Anoka, Minnesota. Dr. James F. Kline opened the...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The End of the Line in Currie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Oxford Mill Ruin
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Jordan Brewery Complex
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Milford Monument
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 48 School Near Delano
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

