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...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
John Grant Lund was a feisty showman and self-made millionaire known locally as the real estate...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Franconia
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Le Sueur Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hanover Bridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome to Hanska
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Brewery In Preston
Ruins of Sawyer School
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Endion School In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Little Falls Depot
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Moderne New Ulm Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring Ottawa
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Endion Depot In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Florence Town Hall
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
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...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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 Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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