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
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s Guardians of Health
The Washburn water tower sits on a hill in the heart of the Washburn Park (commonly known as...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Enter Marlon Brando
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Franconia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Brewery In Preston
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Ottawa
Endion School In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Florence Town Hall
The Milford Monument
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown