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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Swinford Apartments
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Greater Minnesota
Welcome To Dotson
Finding the ghost town of Dotson, Minnesota, wasn’t easy. I was going off of second-hand...
The Little Marais Inn
The completion of Highway 61 along the North Shore in the 1920s allowed vacationers to travel all...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Franconia
Remembering Quadna Resort
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The End of the Line in Currie
Moving Old Hibbing
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 48 School Near Delano
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Finding The Past In Swatara
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lost Highway 61
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Exploring Sandstone
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome To Cobden
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Visiting Golden Gate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Dead Good Walks
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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