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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Ottawa
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Old School In Wolverton
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Old Wadena
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
The Le Sueur Theater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Dotson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moving Old Hibbing
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hanover Bridge
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Enter Marlon Brando
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
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...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
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...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

