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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lincoln Avenue, located on the east side of St. Cloud, became part of the Jefferson Highway system...
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The End of the Line in Currie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hanover Bridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Cobden
Welcome To Old Wadena
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Almelund Creamery
The New Ulm Company Service Station
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
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