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
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little was a partner in a Minneapolis-based real estate firm. He didn’t leave behind much...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Wilder Public Baths
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
As preservationists approached Rockledge, the home’s owner, Ernest L. King Jr., shuffled to the...
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Endion Depot in Duluth, Minnesota, was moved to Canal Park in 1986 to make way for the...
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 6 School in New Sweden
Finding The Past In Swatara
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Old Brewery In Preston
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Historic Franconia
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Taylor House In Le Sueur
District 48 School Near Delano
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Hollywood Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Moderne New Ulm Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Little Falls Depot
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Welcome To Old Wadena
Moving Old Hibbing
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Bend in the River Regional Park
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Green Lake Mounds
The Old School In Wolverton
Welcome To Dotson
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
Wandering Around The Toimi School
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Red Wing Iron Works
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hanover Bridge
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Lost Highway 61
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central 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 Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Punished Woman’s Lake
Welcome to Heaton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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