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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Green Lake Mounds
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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