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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Endion School In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Dotson
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lost Highway 61
Visiting Golden Gate
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 48 School Near Delano
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Le Sueur Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
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...
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
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

