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
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Greater Minnesota
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
St Rose of Lima church was built in 1878. The church and its cemetery sit on over an acre of land...
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Little Falls Depot
The Little Marais Inn
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hanover Bridge
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
Oxford Mill Ruin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome to Hanska
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
District 48 School Near Delano
Taylor House In Le Sueur
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jordan Brewery Complex
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Wasioja
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Endion School In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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