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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Robbinsdale Library
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Eight Days in May Protests
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Exploring Sandstone
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
District 48 School Near Delano
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Dotson
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The End of the Line in Currie
The Church of the Holy Cross
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Milford Monument
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Ruins of Sawyer School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Green Lake Mounds
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Little Falls Depot
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Franconia
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
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