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
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Townhomes
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Archibald mill is located on the banks of the Cannon River in Dundas. Brothers John S. and...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Ruins of Sawyer School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Little Marais Inn
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Green Lake Mounds
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Oxford Mill Ruin
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Little Falls Depot
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Visiting Golden Gate
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Endion School In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Enter Marlon Brando
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Florence Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Duluth Homestead Project
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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