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
Women’s City Club In St Paul
One of my favorite buildings in downtown St Paul is the Jemne building. It’s dwarfed by the...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Enter Marlon Brando
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Little Marais Inn
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
State Theater In Hutchinson
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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