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
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Lustron homes along Nicollet Avenue near 50th Street S in Minneapolis are among nearly 2,500 of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Robbinsdale Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
If you travel north on Highway 64 through central Minnesota, you will likely pass through Akeley...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Green Lake Mounds
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Wasioja
Finding The Past In Swatara
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Moderne New Ulm Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hanover Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hollywood Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Lost Highway 61
Welcome To Old Wadena
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Dotson
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Franconia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Moving Old Hibbing
The Church of the Holy Cross
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Old School In Wolverton
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Little Falls Depot
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
State Theater In Hutchinson
Old Brewery In Preston
The Milford Monument
Exploring Ottawa
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bend in the River Regional Park
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Exploring Sandstone
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion Depot In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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