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 Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis was founded in 1907 by 39 of the city’s most influential women.This...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A library was first established in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1897. A group of citizens banded...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Florence Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
District 48 School Near Delano
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Ottawa
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

