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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Remembering Quadna Resort
When I arrived at the Quadna Resort, I felt like I’d stepped back in time. Although the lodge...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
A gale swept Lake Superior after extraordinary high pressure began to fall on November 27, 1905...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood Town Hall
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Church of the Holy Cross
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Ruins of Sawyer School
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Moderne New Ulm Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Exploring Sandstone
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Little Falls Depot
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
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