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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wilder Public Baths
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Almelund Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Enter Marlon Brando
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The Little Marais Inn
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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