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 Gates of Stonebridge
In 1907, St. Paul businessman and inventor Oliver Crosby purchased twenty-eight acres of land on a...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Apartments
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Townhomes
Robbinsdale Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
District #28 School in Ramsey
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
State Theater In Hutchinson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Florence Town Hall
Endion Depot In Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Oxford Mill Ruin
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
District 48 School Near Delano
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Endion School In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Ruins of Sawyer School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Old School In Wolverton
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Green Lake Mounds
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Ottawa
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring Sandstone
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac 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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
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
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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