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
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Martha G. Ripley Hospital for Women was a pioneering institution in the history of Minnesota...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Robbinsdale Library
The Gates of Stonebridge
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Swinford Apartments
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Eight Days in May Protests
Wilder Public Baths
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Jordan Brewery Complex
During the 1860s, Jordan had become an early industrial center in Scott County and brewing became...
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
In 1872, Joseph Schmucker took over operation of Friton Brewery, which was the first brewery to...
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Meyer School In St Augusta
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Welcome To Dotson
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Green Lake Mounds
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Florence Town Hall
The Almelund Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Red Wing Iron Works
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Moderne New Ulm Library
Historic Franconia
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Old Brewery In Preston
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Milford Monument
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Moving Old Hibbing
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Historic Wasioja
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Little Marais Inn
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Duluth Homestead Project
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Exploring Ottawa
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Finding The Past In Swatara
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Welcome To Cobden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Visiting Golden Gate
State Theater In Hutchinson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Hollywood Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Little Falls Depot
Oxford Mill Ruin
Endion School In Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Ruins of Sawyer School
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
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 Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
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 Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The first library opened in Millbank, South Dakota, in 1882. It served the community so well that...
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Winter At The Lamar School
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
S.S. Meteor In Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
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
Old Brewery In Preston