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
District #28 School in Ramsey
The District #28 School was constructed in Ramsey in 1892 to replace a smaller, wood frame school...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Gates of Stonebridge
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Eight Days in May Protests
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
The End of the Line in Currie
In 1899, the Des Moines Valley Railway Company began work on a plan to extend their rail line in...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Enter Marlon Brando
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Visiting Golden Gate
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Little Falls Depot
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Endion School In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Oxford Mill Ruin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome to Hanska
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Hanover Bridge
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Exploring Sandstone
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Ruins of Sawyer School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Almelund Creamery
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
Florence Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood Town Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Le Sueur Theater
Exploring Ottawa
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Moving Old Hibbing
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital 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 Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
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...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Welcome to Heaton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
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