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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Apartments
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Visiting Golden Gate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Franconia
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
District 48 School Near Delano
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Little Marais Inn
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Duluth Homestead Project
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
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...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
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