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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
This old stone chapel was built at the Sunrise Funeral Home and Cemetery in 1949. Located in...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Franconia
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hollywood Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Enter Marlon Brando
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Cobden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Old School In Wolverton
Almond White and the Motley Castle
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Old Wadena
Meyer School In St Augusta
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The End of the Line in Currie
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Brewery In Preston
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Moving Old Hibbing
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Milford Monument
District 48 School Near Delano
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hanover Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lundring Service Station in Canby
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome to Hanska
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Dead Good Walks
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of 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