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...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Old Wadena
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion School In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Enter Marlon Brando
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Milford Monument
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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