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 Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
In March 1963, the Twin Cities were rocked by a shocking and brutal crime – the murder of Carol...
Robbinsdale Library
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Wilder Public Baths
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Gates of Stonebridge
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
At around 3:30 p.m. on February 5, 1924, the most devastating mining disaster in Minnesota history...
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Moving Old Hibbing
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Meyer School In St Augusta
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Welcome To Dotson
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Milford Monument
Historic Wasioja
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Duluth’s Incline Railway
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Exploring Sandstone
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion School In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Endion Depot In Duluth
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Moderne New Ulm Library
Bend in the River Regional Park
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Jordan Brewery Complex
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Wandering Around The Toimi School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Old Brewery In Preston
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Hollywood Town Hall
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering Quadna Resort
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Historic Franconia
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Green Lake Mounds
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Finding The Past In Swatara
Exploring Ottawa
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Welcome to Hanska
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The End of the Line in Currie
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 48 School Near Delano
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Le Sueur Theater
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Lost Highway 61
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Welcome To Cobden
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Visiting Golden Gate
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Enter Marlon Brando
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Maple Hill Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Who the heck was...
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 Sally Ordway Irvine?
Sarah Prudence Ordway—known by her nickname, Sally—was born in 1910. She was the granddaughter of...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Roadtrips
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Minneapolis held the title of the Flour Milling Capital of the World for decades, starting with the...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...

