Miller Vocational High School opened in Minneapolis in 1932. The school was named after Mary...
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Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Cobden
Cobden, Minnesota, was incorporated in 1905. The little railroad town included a bank, creamery...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Almelund Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hanover Bridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Little Falls Depot
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Ottawa
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Little Marais Inn
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
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