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
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Schmid Farmhouse is located on a hill above Lake Minnetonka. It was constructed in 1876 by...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gates of Stonebridge
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Old Wadena
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Dotson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Visiting Golden Gate
The Duluth Homestead Project
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion School In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Green Lake Mounds
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Hanover Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome to Hanska
Moderne New Ulm Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lost Highway 61
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Ruins of Sawyer School
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

