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 End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Ottawa
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Moderne New Ulm Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Old Wadena
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Red Wing Iron Works
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Jordan Brewery Complex
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The End of the Line in Currie
District 48 School Near Delano
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

