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
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of Minneapolis
In an age before women had the right to vote, Elizabeth C. Quinlan was a natural entrepreneur who...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
District #28 School in Ramsey
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Donald and Carrie Balfour house in Rochester, Minnesota, is a lovely example of how an Arts and...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Almelund Creamery
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Park In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Green Lake Mounds
Historic Wasioja
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Little Falls Depot
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Visiting Golden Gate
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Remembering Quadna Resort
Historic Franconia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring Sandstone
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Little Marais Inn
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...

