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
The Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Swinford Apartments
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Moving Old Hibbing
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Ottawa
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hollywood Town Hall
Welcome to Hanska
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Sandstone
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Wasioja
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Little Marais Inn
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
District 6 School in New Sweden
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Le Sueur Theater
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Franconia
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Old Brewery In Preston
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Visiting Golden Gate
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Meyer School In St Augusta
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Little Falls Depot
Green Lake Mounds
District 48 School Near Delano
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome To Dotson
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Almelund Creamery
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Endion Depot In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Church of the Holy Cross
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Oxford Mill Ruin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
The End of the Line in Currie
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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