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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Orpheum Theater in Duluth, Minnesota, was built on the old Temple Opera House site. The opera...
Exploring Sandstone
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Red Wing Iron Works
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Le Sueur Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Enter Marlon Brando
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion Depot In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Dotson
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

