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
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Earlier this week I visited the Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Eight Days in May Protests
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Swinford Apartments
Robbinsdale Library
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Two Island Project In the fall of 1953, the peaceful quiet of the north shore just south of...
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Franconia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Old School In Wolverton
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Hanover Bridge
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Little Marais Inn
Historic Wasioja
Green Lake Mounds
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Almelund Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Red Wing Iron Works
Moving Old Hibbing
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Exploring Sandstone
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Ruins of Sawyer School
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Endion School In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
Florence Town Hall
Jordan Brewery Complex
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Brewery In Preston
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome To Cobden
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Exploring Ottawa
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Welcome To Old Wadena
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Church of the Holy Cross
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lost Highway 61
The Milford Monument
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 6 School in New Sweden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
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...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Who the heck was...
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 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?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...

