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
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Walker Art Center's Idea Houses I and II were the first fully-functional homes built by a...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Eight Days in May Protests
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Landmark Center In St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Townhomes
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lundring Service Station in Canby
As the popularity and accessibility of automobiles grew throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the problem...
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
George Neuwirth operated a popular bowling alley and bar throughout the 1930s and 1940s in New Ulm...
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Dotson
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Little Falls Depot
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Church of the Holy Cross
Moving Old Hibbing
Welcome to Hanska
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Milford Monument
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Cobden
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Franconia
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Jordan Brewery Complex
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
State Theater In Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Lost Highway 61
Florence Town Hall
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Little Marais Inn
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Bend in the River Regional Park
Historic Wasioja
The Le Sueur Theater
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Exploring Sandstone
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Enter Marlon Brando
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Green Lake Mounds
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Remembering Quadna Resort
District 48 School Near Delano
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
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 Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Punished Woman’s Lake
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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