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
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Robbinsdale Library
The Eight Days in May Protests
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Greater Minnesota
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The original village hall in Waverly was built in 1893. The two-story, brick and stone building sat...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Endion Depot In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Old Brewery In Preston
The Old School In Wolverton
Lost Highway 61
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Little Marais Inn
Hanover Bridge
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Visiting Golden Gate
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Wasioja
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Florence Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Little Falls Depot
Welcome To Old Wadena
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The End of the Line in Currie
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Exploring Sandstone
Red Wing Iron Works
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Almond White and the Motley Castle
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Church of the Holy Cross
Enter Marlon Brando
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
District 48 School Near Delano
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
State Theater In Hutchinson
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Finding The Past In Swatara
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Randall Cooperative Creamery
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Almelund Creamery
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Green Lake Mounds
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring Ottawa
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Le Sueur Theater
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Duluth Homestead Project
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
The Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Green Isle, Minnesota, is the final resting place of...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Article Archive
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
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown