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
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
When I first visited the Anoka State Hospital grounds I didn’t know where I was. I certainly didn’t...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Landmark Center In St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
When people think of the gold rush, they think of California, but Minnesota had its own gold rush...
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Welcome to Hanska
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Franconia
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Le Sueur Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Endion Depot In Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Finding The Past In Swatara
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
State Theater In Hutchinson
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Milford Monument
Hollywood Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Meyer School In St Augusta
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moderne New Ulm Library
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moving Old Hibbing
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Florence Town Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Ruins of Sawyer School
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Little Falls Depot
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...

