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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Saint Paul Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
William Colvill — does that name ring a bell? Unless you're a Civil War history buff, this name...
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The End of the Line in Currie
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Church of the Holy Cross
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Enter Marlon Brando
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Remembering Quadna Resort
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moderne New Ulm Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moving Old Hibbing
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
District 48 School Near Delano
Welcome To Dotson
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
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...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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