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 Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Charles G. Jackson immigrated to the U.S. and purchased the Anoka House, the oldest hotel in Anoka...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Swinford Townhomes
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Gates of Stonebridge
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
After a devastating forest fire obliterated the villages of Finlayson, Hinckley, Miller, Mission...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
District 48 School Near Delano
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome to Hanska
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Little Marais Inn
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Almelund Creamery
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Visiting Golden Gate
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Randall Cooperative Creamery
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Old School In Wolverton
Green Lake Mounds
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hanover Bridge
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Welcome To Dotson
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Sandstone
Bend in the River Regional Park
Moving Old Hibbing
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Jordan Brewery Complex
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Endion School In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Milford Monument
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Enter Marlon Brando
Historic Wasioja
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Church of the Holy Cross
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Welcome To Old Wadena
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The End of the Line in Currie
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
State Theater In Hutchinson
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lundring Service Station in Canby
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Red Wing Iron Works
Ruins of Sawyer School
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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