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...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Saint Paul Hotel
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Swinford Apartments
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Wilder Public Baths
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Robbinsdale Library
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
By the end of the 19th century, dairy was quickly out-pacing wheat as the top agricultural...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Carl Berg opened the Farmers and Travelers Hotel in Sleepy Eye in 1874. It was a simple, two level...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Exploring Sandstone
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Historic Franconia
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Old Brewery In Preston
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hollywood Town Hall
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Remembering Quadna Resort
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome To Cobden
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Le Sueur Theater
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moderne New Ulm Library
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
District 48 School Near Delano
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Finding The Past In Swatara
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Jordan Brewery Complex
Little Falls Depot
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Enter Marlon Brando
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Historic Wasioja
The Old School In Wolverton
The Almelund Creamery
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Little Marais Inn
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Endion Depot In Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Exploring Ottawa
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
District 6 School in New Sweden
Hanover Bridge
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Welcome to Hanska
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Green Lake Mounds
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The End of the Line in Currie
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
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...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
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 John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Dr. Timothy O’Brien was a country doctor and pioneer surgeon who slowly moved west from Ontario...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Punished Woman’s Lake
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Winter At The Lamar School
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
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