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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
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...
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Cobden
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Jordan Brewery Complex
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wandering Around The Toimi School
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lost Highway 61
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Little Marais Inn
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Endion School In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Enter Marlon Brando
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
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