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 Weatherball in Minneapolis
♫ When the Weatherball is glowing red, warmer weather’s just ahead. When the Weatherball is...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s Town
When Samuel Pandolfo arrived in St. Cloud in 1917, he dreamed of building an automobile empire that...
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
I’d never noticed this marker along the Expressway between Duluth and Two Harbors until a...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Old Wadena
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Le Sueur Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Enter Marlon Brando
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Welcome To Cobden
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Historic Wasioja
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Old School In Wolverton
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome to Hanska
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Milford Monument
The Duluth Homestead Project
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Old Brewery In Preston
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Visiting Golden Gate
Bend in the River Regional Park
Little Falls Depot
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Exploring Ottawa
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Lost Highway 61
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jordan Brewery Complex
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
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 Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
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...

