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
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Originally named the Palazzo, the Colonnade Hotel opened on St. Peter Street in Saint Paul in 1888...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Exploring Ottawa
The Almelund Creamery
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Little Marais Inn
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Visiting Golden Gate
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Old School In Wolverton
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hanover Bridge
Historic Wasioja
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Incline Railway
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering Quadna Resort
Florence Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Hollywood Town Hall
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
To say this place is picturesque is an understatement. The Valley Grove churches are located on top...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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