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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Duluth Homestead Project
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Finding The Past In Swatara
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Old Brewery In Preston
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
The Little Marais Inn
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Ruins of Sawyer School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Ottawa
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
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...

