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
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
University Grove is an eclectic jumble of 20th-century homes situated on tree-lined streets in a...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Park Island Hotel in Center City opened in 1900. The secluded, lakeside property offered guests...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Bend in the River Regional Park
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Franconia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lost Highway 61
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Ruins of Sawyer School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Enter Marlon Brando
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Old Brewery In Preston
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Hanover Bridge
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
District 6 School in New Sweden
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Duluth Homestead Project
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome to Hanska
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Milford Monument
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Oxford Mill Ruin
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Hollywood Town Hall
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Dotson
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Green Lake Mounds
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Historic Wasioja
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring Sandstone
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Visiting Golden Gate
Endion Depot In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
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