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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
This gorgeous Second Empire style home in Hastings was built for William Thompson in 1880. Thompson...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Endion School In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Wasioja
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Old Wadena
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Green Lake Mounds
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering Quadna Resort
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
District 6 School in New Sweden
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Finding The Past In Swatara
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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