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
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The first road through Anoka County was established in 1835 to aid those traveling between...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Women’s City Club In St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
District #28 School in Ramsey
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Lincoln Branch of the Duluth Public Library opened in 1917 thanks to $30,000 from Andrew...
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Milford Monument
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Exploring Sandstone
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Red Wing Iron Works
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Randall Cooperative Creamery
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
State Theater In Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Florence Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Welcome To Dotson
Exploring Ottawa
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion Depot In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Almelund Creamery
The Duluth Homestead Project
Meyer School In St Augusta
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Old School In Wolverton
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Green Lake Mounds
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Franconia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chester Township Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
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 Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

