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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Greater Minnesota
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The charming town of Winona, Minnesota, once played host to an extraordinary tale in the world of...
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
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Le Sueur Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Almelund Creamery
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Meyer School In St Augusta
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

