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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Gates of Stonebridge
District #28 School in Ramsey
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Swinford Apartments
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Greater Minnesota
Moderne New Ulm Library
In 1936, a sleek, Moderne-style public library was built in New Ulm, Minnesota. The land for the...
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Holy Cross in Dundas is a Gothic-style church built in 1868. John S. Archibald of...
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Red Wing Iron Works
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Visiting Golden Gate
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Lost Highway 61
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome To Old Wadena
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Le Sueur Theater
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Welcome To Cobden
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome to Hanska
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Little Marais Inn
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Daniel Piper House in Medford
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jordan Brewery Complex
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
These two warehouses in Superior, Wisconsin are pretty popular places to photograph. After...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Welcome to Heaton
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