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
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Names like Louis Comfort Tiffany and Gustav Stickley are well rooted in many American’s minds as...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Swinford Townhomes
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Church of the Holy Cross
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Welcome To Dotson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Almelund Creamery
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Green Lake Mounds
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion School In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Almond White and the Motley Castle
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lost Highway 61
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
Welcome To Old Wadena
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Welcome to Hanska
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Florence Town Hall
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Old School In Wolverton
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Oxford Mill Ruin
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hanover Bridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Watts Free Library In Leonard
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