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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Munger Terrace has been a landmark in Duluth’s Central Hillside neighborhood since the building was...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Milford Monument
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Visiting Golden Gate
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bend in the River Regional Park
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion School In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Dotson
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Green Lake Mounds
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Duluth Homestead Project
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The Little Marais Inn
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Little Falls Depot
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Meyer School In St Augusta
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hanover Bridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Almelund Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Old School In Wolverton
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Who the heck was...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown