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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The West Bridge in Madelia, Minnesota, was built in 1908. It is the earliest remaining example of a...
Visiting Golden Gate
Old Brewery In Preston
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Little Falls Depot
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lost Highway 61
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
State Theater In Hutchinson
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Ottawa
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Old School In Wolverton
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Enter Marlon Brando
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Red Wing Iron Works
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Wasioja
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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