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
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Almelund Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Meyer School In St Augusta
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Milford Monument
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Welcome To Old Wadena
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Finding The Past In Swatara
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Endion School In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Little Marais Inn
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hanover Bridge
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring Ottawa
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Wasioja
District 48 School Near Delano
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Jordan Brewery Complex
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Cobden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
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 Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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