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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Wasioja
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring Ottawa
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Cobden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Florence Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Finding The Past In Swatara
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

