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
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Constructed in 1897 for $13,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis was designed...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hollywood Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Florence Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The End of the Line in Currie
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hanover Bridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
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
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

