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 Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Minneapolis’ most prominent citizens were shocked when they learned that the Minnesota State Fair...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Le Sueur Theater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Welcome to Hanska
Hollywood Town Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lost Highway 61
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hanover Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Little Falls Depot
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Meyer School In St Augusta
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Oxford Mill Ruin
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Welcome To Dotson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Sandstone
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
District 48 School Near Delano
Finding The Past In Swatara
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Moderne New Ulm Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Green Lake Mounds
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Wasioja
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

