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
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Constructed in 1869-70, the Metropolitan Hotel once stood at the corner of Washington and Third...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hanover Bridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Green Lake Mounds
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Visiting Golden Gate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
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