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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Ottawa
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Little Falls Depot
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Red Wing Iron Works
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Milford Monument
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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...

