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
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Located in Robbinsdale, the international-style Terrace Theatre opened on May 23, 1951. At the...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Eight Days in May Protests
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Gates of Stonebridge
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Robbinsdale Library
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The town of Hasty in central Minnesota began with the construction of a new Great Northern Railway...
Exploring Ottawa
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Welcome To Dotson
The Almelund Creamery
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The Le Sueur Theater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Ruins of Sawyer School
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Franconia
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hollywood Town Hall
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Lost Highway 61
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Wasioja
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Church of the Holy Cross
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
State Theater In Hutchinson
Oxford Mill Ruin
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Jordan Brewery Complex
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Little Falls Depot
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Moving Old Hibbing
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Remembering Quadna Resort
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Moderne New Ulm Library
Welcome To Cobden
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hanover Bridge
The Old School In Wolverton
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Endion Depot In Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Florence Town Hall
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome to Hanska
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
About half of a mile away from the Toimi School is a quiet little cemetery nestled back in the...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
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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 Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
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