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 Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Lowry Hotel opened in 1927 and was 12 floors of pure glamour. An addition was made in 1930 to...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Apartments
Greater Minnesota
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
You can’t drive through Zumbrota, Minnesota, without stopping at the covered bridge. It’s located...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District Number 11 in McLeod County was first organized in 1865 to serve the predominantly Czech...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Historic Wasioja
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Florence Town Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Dotson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Milford Monument
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Le Sueur Theater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lost Highway 61
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bend in the River Regional Park
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Franconia
Hanover Bridge
Welcome to Hanska
The End of the Line in Currie
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hollywood Town Hall
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 6 School in New Sweden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Old Wadena
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Meyer School In St Augusta
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
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
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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