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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Rush City Creamery Cooperative was organized in 1907 by a group of local dairy farmers. After...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Before the Interstate Bridge was built between Duluth and Superior in the late-1890s, the only way...
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Cobden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lost Highway 61
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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