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 Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wilder Public Baths
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Greater Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Happy accidents. That’s sometimes how I find some of my favorite places to share with you. I...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
In 1909, just eight years after this school was built in Sandstone, lightning struck. Sadly, the...
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Visiting Golden Gate
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Milford Monument
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Ottawa
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Endion School In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hanover Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome to Hanska
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Le Sueur Theater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Wasioja
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Old School In Wolverton
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
State Theater In Hutchinson
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Florence Town Hall
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Franconia
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Almelund Creamery
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Little Falls Depot
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Red Wing Iron Works
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...
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...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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