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
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Built in 1913, the Charles and Grace Parker House was designed by the nationally-prominent Prairie...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Robbinsdale Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Greater Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ok, stick with me here. Can you remember how your elementary school smelled? I can. Vividly. A hint...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Ruins of Sawyer School
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The End of the Line in Currie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Wasioja
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bend in the River Regional Park
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Visiting Golden Gate
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Duluth Homestead Project
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 48 School Near Delano
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
Taylor House In Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Red Wing Iron Works
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Green Lake Mounds
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Florence Town Hall
Remembering Quadna Resort
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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