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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
District #28 School in Ramsey
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Swinford Townhomes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
The Milford Monument
This monument was created in memory of the 53 women, men, and children that were killed in Milford...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Several buildings were constructed on 30 acres of lakefront property in Two Harbors in the 1920s to...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Sandstone
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
Hollywood Town Hall
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Wasioja
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Little Marais Inn
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The End of the Line in Currie
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Endion School In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Franconia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
Endion Depot In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Old School In Wolverton
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 48 School Near Delano
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
Jordan Brewery Complex
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Almelund Creamery
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Remembering Quadna Resort
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
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...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
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...

