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...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Franconia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome to Hanska
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Brewery In Preston
Bend in the River Regional Park
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Old School In Wolverton
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...

