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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Meyer School In St Augusta
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome to Hanska
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
Endion Depot In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Franconia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moderne New Ulm Library
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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