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
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
World-renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in an apartment on the second floor of this...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wilder Public Baths
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Robbinsdale Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
November 27, 1905, was a typical Monday morning for the crew of the flat-bottomed scow, George...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Historic Franconia
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion School In Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Sandstone
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Little Marais Inn
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Church of the Holy Cross
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
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 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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
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