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
Robbinsdale Library
The Robbinsdale Library opened its doors for the first time on January 4, 1926, thanks to the...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Exploring Sandstone
The city of Sandstone, Minnesota, was platted and incorporated in 1887. The area was a major hub...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
Endion School In Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Le Sueur Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The Little Marais Inn
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Franconia
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Old Brewery In Preston
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Church of the Holy Cross
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
District 6 School in New Sweden
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome To Dotson
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Ruins of Sawyer School
Hanover Bridge
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Moving Old Hibbing
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
District 48 School Near Delano
State Theater In Hutchinson
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Jordan Brewery Complex
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Almelund Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Florence Town Hall
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Lost Highway 61
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Bend in the River Regional Park
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Welcome To Cobden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Visiting Golden Gate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Dead Good Walks
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
The Woodlawn Cemetery is located at the end of aptly named Cemetery Road in Douglas County. Don’t...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
The first chapel for the parish of St. Peter was located in a log cabin across the river from Fort...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Golden Gate Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Winter At The Lamar School
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
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