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
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of Food
Betty Crocker was born in a boardroom of The Washburn-Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921. A...
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Wilder Public Baths
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Swinford Townhomes
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Swinford Apartments
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Greater Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
I was lucky enough in 2020 to visit three really unique town halls. Each one was designed and built...
Taylor House In Le Sueur
There are quite a few examples of the gorgeous Eastlake-style architecture in Minnesota, but this...
State Theater In Hutchinson
Finding The Past In Swatara
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Almelund Creamery
Old Brewery In Preston
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Historic Franconia
Green Lake Mounds
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Endion Depot In Duluth
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Welcome To Old Wadena
Little Falls Depot
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Enter Marlon Brando
Bend in the River Regional Park
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Visiting Golden Gate
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Oxford Mill Ruin
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Remembering Quadna Resort
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Little Marais Inn
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Welcome To Cobden
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Exploring Sandstone
Endion School In Duluth
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Milford Monument
Ruins of Sawyer School
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Welcome to Hanska
Lost Highway 61
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hanover Bridge
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Old School In Wolverton
Duluth’s Incline Railway
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Red Wing Iron Works
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Church of the Holy Cross
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Wasioja
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Moving Old Hibbing
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
District 6 School in New Sweden
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Le Sueur Theater
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The End of the Line in Currie
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Chester Township Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
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...

