The historic Turnblad mansion was built between 1904 and 1908 for Swan Turnblad, his wife...
Twin Cities Area
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Edwin H Hewitt was one of Minnesota’s most widely-known architects of the 20th century. Born in Red...
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Landmark Center In St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Robbinsdale Library
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
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...
Visiting Golden Gate
A post office was first established in Golden Gate, Minnesota, in 1868. The little town sprang up...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Exploring Sandstone
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Remembering Quadna Resort
Red Wing Iron Works
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Enter Marlon Brando
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Bend in the River Regional Park
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Little Falls Depot
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Little Marais Inn
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Milford Monument
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Welcome to Hanska
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Florence Town Hall
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hollywood Town Hall
The Church of the Holy Cross
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Moving Old Hibbing
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Dead Good Walks
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
When I arrived at the Medo Central Cemetery, I didn’t know much about the history of the area...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

