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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Historic Franconia
Franconia was organized in October 1858, just eight months after Ansell Smith recorded the first...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Green Lake Mounds
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lost Highway 61
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The End of the Line in Currie
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Ottawa
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Cobden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

