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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Greater Minnesota
District 48 School Near Delano
It really hurts to see this old schoolhouse so neglected 😟 The Franklin Township (Minnesota)...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The George and Charlotte Crosby house is located just a few blocks east of downtown Duluth...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Old School In Wolverton
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hollywood Town Hall
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bend in the River Regional Park
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Franconia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Little Falls Depot
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Little Marais Inn
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown