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
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
James J. Hill was the preeminent transportation pioneer in the American Northwest. He arrived in St...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Wilder Public Baths
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Freemasons organized a lodge in Clearwater, Minnesota in 1858 that became known as Masonic...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Visiting Golden Gate
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Welcome To Dotson
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Ruins of Sawyer School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Historic Franconia
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Meyer School In St Augusta
The End of the Line in Currie
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Jordan Brewery Complex
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
Old Brewery In Preston
Hanover Bridge
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Sandstone
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Cobden
Moderne New Ulm Library
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Remembering Quadna Resort
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
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