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 Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Germania Bank building is the only remaining brownstone “skyscraper” in St Paul. The eight...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Swinford Apartments
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Swinford Townhomes
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
I’m sure we’ve all made typos that made us cringe once we noticed them. But most of our...
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Last fall I was able to cross a few stops in Duluth’s west end off of my to-do list. I wanted to...
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Remembering Quadna Resort
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Little Falls Depot
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Old School In Wolverton
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Old Brewery In Preston
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Oxford Mill Ruin
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Green Lake Mounds
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Moderne New Ulm Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Milford Monument
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Visiting Golden Gate
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Hanover Bridge
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Exploring Ottawa
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome to Hanska
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Finding The Past In Swatara
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Welcome To Cobden
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Endion Depot In Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Welcome to Heaton
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