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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
If you’ve been to the Mille Lacs area of Minnesota, there’s a good chance you’ve...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Free Public Library in Hutchinson, Minnesota, was first organized in 1874 by early settlers of...
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Enter Marlon Brando
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Le Sueur Theater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
District 48 School Near Delano
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
The Little Marais Inn
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome To Old Wadena
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Little Falls Depot
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The End of the Line in Currie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Meyer School In St Augusta
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Welcome To Cobden
Historic Wasioja
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Franconia
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church 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...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
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...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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