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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Apartments
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Saint Paul Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Eight Days in May Protests
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Greater Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Travelers come upon the Stewart Creek stone-arch bridge in a bend of an unpaved section of Skyline...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Le Sueur Theater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Little Falls Depot
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 6 School in New Sweden
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Welcome To Dotson
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Wasioja
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Hollywood Town Hall
Old Brewery In Preston
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Old Wadena
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
District 48 School Near Delano
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Franconia
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Cobden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Milford Monument
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate 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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...

