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
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Paul has retained quite a few of its old, historic downtown buildings. So it’s hard for...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Almelund Creamery
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hanover Bridge
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Florence Town Hall
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Le Sueur Theater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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