The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Twin Cities Area
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Townhomes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Greater Minnesota
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
District 48 School Near Delano
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
The New Ulm Company Service Station
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City 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 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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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