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 Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
As the population of St. Paul grew, people began moving out of the city's core and into quieter...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Greater Minnesota
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
In 1890, Ole Rosenthal and a friend were moving a cart across his property near the Minnesota River...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The End of the Line in Currie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Le Sueur Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Old School In Wolverton
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Sandstone
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lost Highway 61
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
State Theater In Hutchinson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Ottawa
The Church of the Holy Cross
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
District 48 School Near Delano
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Milford Monument
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Ruins of Sawyer School
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

