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
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Eight Days in May Protests
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Landmark Center In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Gates of Stonebridge
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Apartments
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Swinford Townhomes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Geldner Sawmill stands on a narrow strip of land that separates Lake Jefferson and German Lake...
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swatara, Minnesota, started out as a logging town when several logging companies moved into the...
The Little Marais Inn
Lundring Service Station in Canby
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Endion School In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Remembering Quadna Resort
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Hanover Bridge
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
District 48 School Near Delano
The Old School In Wolverton
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Wasioja
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Enter Marlon Brando
The Milford Monument
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Lincoln Park In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Le Sueur Theater
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Welcome to Hanska
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring Ottawa
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Oxford Mill Ruin
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Endion Depot In Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The End of the Line in Currie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Moderne New Ulm Library
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lost Highway 61
Old Brewery In Preston
Meyer School In St Augusta
Bend in the River Regional Park
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Green Lake Mounds
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Duluth Homestead Project
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hollywood Town Hall
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Welcome To Old Wadena
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Red Wing Iron Works
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Dead Good Walks
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Roadtrips
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Ringling Brothers Circus crisscrossed the middle of the country several times in 1897. They...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Winter At The Lamar School
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Welcome to Heaton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
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