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 Swinford Townhomes
The Swinford Townhomes were built overlooking Hawthorne Park in 1886. They were constructed in...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Saint Paul Hotel
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Robbinsdale Library
Greater Minnesota
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Vermont-native Almond A. White came to Minnesota after the Civil War and settled in Brainerd for a...
Ruins of Sawyer School
This abandoned school has been on my to-do list for quite a while, and I finally made it there in...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Endion School In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Visiting Golden Gate
Meyer School In St Augusta
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Welcome to Hanska
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Lost Highway 61
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Red Wing Iron Works
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Franconia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Wasioja
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hollywood Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Hanover Bridge
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Enter Marlon Brando
Florence Town Hall
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Welcome To Dotson
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Remembering Quadna Resort
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
District 48 School Near Delano
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
The Le Sueur Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Little Marais Inn
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Old Brewery In Preston
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Dead Good Walks
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
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...
Golden Gate Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
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