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

