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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gates of Stonebridge
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
The Carver County District Number 76 School was built in 1906 and opened for classes in the fall of...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Moving Old Hibbing
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

