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
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
The Milford Monument
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Dotson
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Almelund Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 48 School Near Delano
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Old Brewery In Preston
Finding The Past In Swatara
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Wasioja
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Visiting Golden Gate
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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