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
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Calling all St Paul history buffs! I have spent way too long researching this little piece of...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Robbinsdale Library
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Saint Paul Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
District #28 School in Ramsey
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Greater Minnesota
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Daniel Piper came to Minnesota from New Hampshire with his wife and daughter in early 1877...
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
I saw this pretty old farmhouse streak by my window as I was driving on I-35 and knew right away...
The Duluth Homestead Project
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome To Cobden
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Welcome To Dotson
The Milford Monument
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Little Marais Inn
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Exploring Ottawa
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Old School In Wolverton
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lost Highway 61
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Little Falls Depot
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
The Le Sueur Theater
District 6 School in New Sweden
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion Depot In Duluth
Exploring Sandstone
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Hollywood Town Hall
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Historic Wasioja
Florence Town Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Historic Franconia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Moving Old Hibbing
The End of the Line in Currie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Meyer School In St Augusta
Green Lake Mounds
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Finding The Past In Swatara
Welcome To Old Wadena
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

