The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Twin Cities Area
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
In 1899, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company extended its reach of their streetcars to the...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pine Tree Lumber Company was established in Little Falls in 1890. Located on the banks of the...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Park Terrace was an opulent building of Victorian townhouses located on a steep hill just off of...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Franconia
The Le Sueur Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Milford Monument
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Old Wadena
Remembering Quadna Resort
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Ottawa
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion School In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Church of the Holy Cross
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Bend in the River Regional Park
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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