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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Jordan Brewery Complex
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Le Sueur Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Red Wing Iron Works
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Old School In Wolverton
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Visiting Golden Gate
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood Town Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
District 6 School in New Sweden
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Florence Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion School In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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