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 Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George H. Christian was a manager at the Washburn-Crosby Company in Minneapolis who worked out a...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Little Falls Depot
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Bend in the River Regional Park
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Church of the Holy Cross
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Red Wing Iron Works
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome To Dotson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Florence Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...

