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 Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
At the turn of the twentieth century, newspapers and magazines touted quack cures and healing cults...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Robbinsdale Library
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A handful of families first settled in Lake Eunice Township around 1870. The following year, a...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Green Lake Mounds
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Welcome To Old Wadena
Oxford Mill Ruin
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The End of the Line in Currie
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
Historic Franconia
State Theater In Hutchinson
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Remembering Quadna Resort
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Milford Monument
Lost Highway 61
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Ottawa
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Meyer School In St Augusta
Welcome to Hanska
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Endion Depot In Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Welcome To Cobden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Florence Town Hall
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Le Sueur Theater
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Old Brewery In Preston
Endion School In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Jordan Brewery Complex
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Almelund Creamery
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 6 School in New Sweden
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hollywood Town Hall
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Wasioja
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Little Marais Inn
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
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