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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Wilder Public Baths
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Ottawa
Don’t you love it when you stop in a town for one historic building and find out there are other...
Enter Marlon Brando
Founded in 1858, Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault was one of the oldest and most respected...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
State Theater In Hutchinson
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
District 48 School Near Delano
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Florence Town Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Wasioja
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Le Sueur Theater
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Red Wing Iron Works
Visiting Golden Gate
Ruins of Sawyer School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hanover Bridge
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Moderne New Ulm Library
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Lost Highway 61
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Welcome To Old Wadena
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
The End of the Line in Currie
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Welcome To Cobden
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Moving Old Hibbing
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
This cute building was built in 1882 and was home to the Cushing Land Agency in St. Croix Falls...

