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
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Although it’s difficult to tell now, Highway 100 in the west metro was once one of the most...
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Swinford Apartments
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Snake River Fur Post has reopened for the season. As I’ve mentioned a few times before...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Did you know that there was a veterans cemetery planned for the site of the 1862 battle of Birch...
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
District 6 School in New Sweden
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Endion Depot In Duluth
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Endion School In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bend in the River Regional Park
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Ruins of Sawyer School
The Duluth Homestead Project
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Old School In Wolverton
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Welcome To Dotson
Hanover Bridge
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Exploring Ottawa
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Red Wing Iron Works
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Oxford Mill Ruin
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Duluth’s Incline Railway
District 48 School Near Delano
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Cobden
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Meyer School In St Augusta
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Welcome To Old Wadena
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Enter Marlon Brando
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Le Sueur Theater
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Sandstone
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Almelund Creamery
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Green Lake Mounds
Moderne New Ulm Library
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Milford Monument
Old Brewery In Preston
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
State Theater In Hutchinson
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Wasioja
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Moving Old Hibbing
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Jordan Brewery Complex
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Church of the Holy Cross
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Hollywood Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The End of the Line in Currie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Finding The Past In Swatara
Little Falls Depot
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Dead Good Walks
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
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 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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Welcome to Heaton
Heaton, North Dakota was founded in 1899. It began as a railroad town and eventually grew into a...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The first public library was established in Watertown, South Dakota 1899. Like many other growing...
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Punished Woman’s Lake
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
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