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...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Wilder Public Baths
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
Hanover Bridge
Hanover Bridge was constructed by the Morse Bridge Company of Youngstown, Ohio in 1885. The single...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Franconia
Welcome To Dotson
Old Brewery In Preston
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
District 48 School Near Delano
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
The Almelund Creamery
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moving Old Hibbing
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome to Hanska
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Florence Town Hall
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Little Marais Inn
Jordan Brewery Complex
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Enter Marlon Brando
The Church of the Holy Cross
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Le Sueur Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Finding The Past In Swatara
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
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