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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
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...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 48 School Near Delano
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Church of the Holy Cross
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moving Old Hibbing
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lost Highway 61
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Old School In Wolverton
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome to Hanska
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
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...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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