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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Swinford Townhomes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Landmark Center In St Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Lost Highway 61
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
District 6 School in New Sweden
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion School In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Visiting Golden Gate
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Church of the Holy Cross
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Park In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Duluth Homestead Project
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Florence Town Hall
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Little Marais Inn
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Moving Old Hibbing
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Green Lake Mounds
The End of the Line in Currie
Moderne New Ulm Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hanover Bridge
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Old School In Wolverton
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses 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