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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
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...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Little Falls Depot
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lost Highway 61
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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