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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Ottawa
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Red Wing Iron Works
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hollywood Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
District 48 School Near Delano
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Wasioja
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Brewery In Preston
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Milford Monument
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

