The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
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District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Almond White and the Motley Castle
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Cobden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood Town Hall
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Endion Depot In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Finding The Past In Swatara
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Almelund Creamery
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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