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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Duluth Homestead Project, also known as the Jackson Project, began under the United States...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Dotson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Old Wadena
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Franconia
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Red Wing Iron Works
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Florence Town Hall
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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