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
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Robbinsdale Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Saint Paul Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Greater Minnesota
Historic Wasioja
Wasioja, Minnesota, was a thriving community in the 1850s and 1860s. The village was settled in...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Welcome to Hanska
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
District 6 School in New Sweden
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Little Falls Depot
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The End of the Line in Currie
Old Brewery In Preston
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
District 48 School Near Delano
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Exploring Ottawa
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moderne New Ulm Library
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion School In Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Milford Monument
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Jordan Brewery Complex
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Almelund Creamery
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Red Wing Iron Works
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Florence Town Hall
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Bend in the River Regional Park
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Moving Old Hibbing
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Enter Marlon Brando
Lost Highway 61
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hollywood Town Hall
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Little Marais Inn
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Le Sueur Theater
Welcome To Cobden
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Welcome To Dotson
Green Lake Mounds
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Finding The Past In Swatara
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...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Chippewa City Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Johan Hvoslef was born in Norway in 1839. After graduating from the University of Norway, he came...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
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