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
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Robbinsdale Library
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Swinford Apartments
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Greater Minnesota
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Historic Wasioja
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Randall Cooperative Creamery
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Lost Highway 61
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Le Sueur Theater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Enter Marlon Brando
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Jordan Brewery Complex
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Florence Town Hall
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Almelund Creamery
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Welcome To Old Wadena
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Visiting Golden Gate
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Milford Monument
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Little Marais Inn
The End of the Line in Currie
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Duluth Homestead Project
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Old Brewery In Preston
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Church of the Holy Cross
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Welcome to Hanska
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

