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
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Construction on the Hamm Building in downtown St Paul began in 1915 and was completed in 1920. The...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Exploring Sandstone
The Almelund Creamery
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion School In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Dotson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Red Wing Iron Works
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The End of the Line in Currie
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
District 6 School in New Sweden
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Milford Monument
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Little Marais Inn
Little Falls Depot
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Old School In Wolverton
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Oxford Mill Ruin
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Le Sueur Theater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering Quadna Resort
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
District 48 School Near Delano
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Ottawa
State Theater In Hutchinson
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...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...

