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
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Old School In Wolverton
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Le Sueur Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Church of the Holy Cross
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Enter Marlon Brando
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Moving Old Hibbing
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Finding The Past In Swatara
Oxford Mill Ruin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Sandstone
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
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...

