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
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ness Congregation was originally organized as the Norwegian Evangelical St. Johannes...
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Ottawa
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Old Wadena
The End of the Line in Currie
The Little Marais Inn
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moving Old Hibbing
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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