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...
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Swinford Townhomes
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wilder Public Baths
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
District #28 School in Ramsey
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Greater Minnesota
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesota’s smallest town. The 2010 census...
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Historic Franconia
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Old Brewery In Preston
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Wasioja
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
The End of the Line in Currie
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Le Sueur Theater
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
District 48 School Near Delano
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Enter Marlon Brando
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Milford Monument
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
Remembering Quadna Resort
Bend in the River Regional Park
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Visiting Golden Gate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Old School In Wolverton
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Cobden
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Meyer School In St Augusta
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Moving Old Hibbing
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Moderne New Ulm Library
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Dead Good Walks
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
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