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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wilder Public Baths
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Eight Days in May Protests
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Shortly after midnight on November 28, 1905, the Crescent City dropped anchor in 90-feet of water...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Florence Town Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Le Sueur Theater
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Church of the Holy Cross
District 48 School Near Delano
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
Remembering Quadna Resort
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Moderne New Ulm Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Green Lake Mounds
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Welcome To Dotson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hanover Bridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Welcome To Cobden
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Visiting Golden Gate
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Brewery In Preston
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Oxford Mill Ruin
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Franconia
Historic Wasioja
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Duluth Homestead Project
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Milford Monument
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Endion Depot In Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Dead Good Walks
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Any other Caddie Woodlawn fans out there? This one is for you 🙂 The book Caddie Woodlawn was...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

