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
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
In 1944, a group of talented athletes took the field at Nicollet Park in Minneapolis to wild...
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Townhomes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Henry D. Huff was a land speculator who built a brick and stone Italian Villa-style house on a...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Florence Town Hall
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Sandstone
The Little Marais Inn
Enter Marlon Brando
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome To Cobden
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Green Lake Mounds
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome to Hanska
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Punished Woman’s Lake
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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