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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Built in 1926, the New Ulm Company Service Station is the best remaining example in a series of...
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Florence Town Hall
Visiting Golden Gate
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Dotson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Le Sueur Theater
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jordan Brewery Complex
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Hollywood Town Hall
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Old School In Wolverton
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
District 48 School Near Delano
Little Falls Depot
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Franconia
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Wasioja
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Milford Monument
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Moderne New Ulm Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Church of the Holy Cross
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Welcome To Cobden
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome to Hanska
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lost Highway 61
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial 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