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
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St. Paul
The Aberdeen Hotel may not have been the first luxury apartment hotel in the Twin Cities, but it...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
William J Mayo was the older of the two Mayo brothers who, along with five partners, founded the...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Le Sueur Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Old Brewery In Preston
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Sandstone
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hanover Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Moving Old Hibbing
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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