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 the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Swinford Townhomes
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The New Englanders who settled in the St Croix Valley were drawn there because of the thick, wild...
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Arthur Orr was a 286’ steel package freighter built by the Chicago Ship Building Company. She...
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hanover Bridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Lundring Service Station in Canby
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Oxford Mill Ruin
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Duluth Homestead Project
Jordan Brewery Complex
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Wasioja
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Almelund Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome To Old Wadena
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 48 School Near Delano
The Church of the Holy Cross
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The End of the Line in Currie
Florence Town Hall
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Enter Marlon Brando
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia 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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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