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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Eight Days in May Protests
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Swinford Townhomes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wilder Public Baths
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Exploring Sandstone
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Finding The Past In Swatara
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Endion School In Duluth
Welcome To Dotson
Visiting Golden Gate
Lost Highway 61
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Little Falls Depot
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Oxford Mill Ruin
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The End of the Line in Currie
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Milford Monument
Hanover Bridge
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Cobden
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Moving Old Hibbing
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...

