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

