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
Wilder Public Baths
It's hard to imagine a time when taking a bath or shower in your own home wasn’t possible, but the...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Eight Days in May Protests
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
One of the earliest victims of the big blow on Lake Superior in November of 1905 was the steamer...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Red Wing Iron Works
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Endion Depot In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Le Sueur Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Milford Monument
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Little Falls Depot
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lost Highway 61
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Cobden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hollywood Town Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
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...
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...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Punished Woman’s Lake
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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