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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Wilder Public Baths
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Landmark Center In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Saint Paul Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The childhood home of children’s book author and illustrator Wanda Gag was built in New Ulm...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
In 1929, the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge was established in Lanesboro, Minnesota. Membership...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Oxford Mill Ruin
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
The Duluth Homestead Project
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
Little Falls Depot
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Wandering Around The Toimi School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome to Hanska
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hollywood Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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