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
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Hanover Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Finding The Past In Swatara
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Florence Town Hall
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Little Marais Inn
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Cobden
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome to Hanska
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Historic Franconia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Sandstone
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Endion Depot In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
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