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 Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Robbinsdale Library
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Jordan Brewery Complex
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Endion Depot In Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Enter Marlon Brando
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Wasioja
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
The Church of the Holy Cross
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Ruins of Sawyer School
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Green Lake Mounds
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Florence Town Hall
State Theater In Hutchinson
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Duluth Homestead Project
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lost Highway 61
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
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