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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Robbinsdale Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Pennsylvania-native Joseph Renshaw Brown arrived in Minnesota at the age of 14 with the Army. He...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Visiting Golden Gate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion School In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Enter Marlon Brando
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering Quadna Resort
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Red Wing Iron Works
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township 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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
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