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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Florence Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Little Falls Depot
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The End of the Line in Currie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Cobden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Exploring Sandstone
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
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...
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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