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
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Today, The Blaisdell is a wedding and event venue with cozy places to gather with your nearest and...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Meyer School In St Augusta
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Green Lake Mounds
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Historic Wasioja
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The End of the Line in Currie
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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...

