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
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
At the turn of the 20th century, urban amusement parks were a popular form of communal...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two weeks after the James–Younger Gang raided Northfield the gang appeared at the farm of Ole...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Finding The Past In Swatara
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Ottawa
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Wasioja
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hanover Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lost Highway 61
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Dotson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Florence Town Hall
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
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...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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