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
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis was one of the rare mills in the city that had four finished...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Chisago County State Bank was built in Center City in 1915. In August 1925, more than 60...
Endion School In Duluth
The Endion School in Duluth, Minnesota, was built in 1890. The architect who designed the three...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Dotson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The End of the Line in Currie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Green Lake Mounds
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Meyer School In St Augusta
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hollywood Town Hall
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Le Sueur Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Enter Marlon Brando
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
Welcome to Hanska
Visiting Golden Gate
The Old School In Wolverton
The Milford Monument
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Bend in the River Regional Park
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Finding The Past In Swatara
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Little Falls Depot
Ruins of Sawyer School
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Ottawa
The Duluth Homestead Project
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chippewa City was a turn of the century settlement on the north shore of Lake Superior near Grand...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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