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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Around the turn of the twentieth century, Nicollet County had eight rural crossroads hamlets. While...
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Washington County District No. 2 was formed in 1857 for the growing number of children moving into...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Wasioja
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Church of the Holy Cross
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Milford Monument
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Welcome To Cobden
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Little Falls Depot
The End of the Line in Currie
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Red Wing Iron Works
Oxford Mill Ruin
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Sandstone
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Welcome To Dotson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Green Lake Mounds
Moving Old Hibbing
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Old School In Wolverton
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
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...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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