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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Meyer School In St Augusta
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 48 School Near Delano
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hollywood Town Hall
The Old School In Wolverton
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lost Highway 61
Randall Cooperative Creamery
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Franconia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moderne New Ulm Library
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Red Wing Iron Works
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Brewery In Preston
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

