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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Swinford Townhomes
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gates of Stonebridge
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Greater Minnesota
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion School In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome to Hanska
Moving Old Hibbing
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Enter Marlon Brando
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Dead Good Walks
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown