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 Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Welcome to Hanska
Hanska was supposed to be a quick stop on my way from Mankato to Sleepy Eye. I planned to get a few...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Welcome To Cobden
Finding The Past In Swatara
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Endion School In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Old Wadena
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Le Sueur Theater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Duluth Homestead Project
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hanover Bridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood Town Hall
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Remembering Quadna Resort
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Enter Marlon Brando
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
State Theater In Hutchinson
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church in Wilton, North Dakota, was built in 1913. Church...

