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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Wilder Public Baths
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The District Number 50 school in Essig, Minnesota, opened in 1912. Children attend this one-room...
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Incline Railway
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Old Brewery In Preston
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Florence Town Hall
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Finding The Past In Swatara
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The End of the Line in Currie
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Ottawa
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Oxford Mill Ruin
District 6 School in New Sweden
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion School In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Exploring Sandstone
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Moderne New Ulm Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Le Sueur Theater
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Church of the Holy Cross
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Jordan Brewery Complex
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
District 48 School Near Delano
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Lost Highway 61
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...

