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...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Robbinsdale Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Red Wing Iron Works was founded in 1866 by brothers Benjamin and Daniel Densmore. They found a...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome to Hanska
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Ottawa
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lost Highway 61
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
Old Brewery In Preston
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The End of the Line in Currie
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Green Lake Mounds
Little Falls Depot
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Dotson
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Welcome To Old Wadena
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Milford Monument
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Exploring Sandstone
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Enter Marlon Brando
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Le Sueur Theater
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Moving Old Hibbing
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Historic Franconia
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome To Cobden
Florence Town Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
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...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
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
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
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