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
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Duluth Homestead Project
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome to Hanska
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

