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 Saint Paul Hotel
The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hanover Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Duluth Homestead Project
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Milford Monument
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
District 48 School Near Delano
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
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