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
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
This red sandstone house is the oldest in the Washburn Fair Oaks Mansion District and it had an odd...
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Saint Paul Hotel
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Robbinsdale Library
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Planning for a new road for stagecoach travel westward from the Mississippi began in the winter of...
Little Falls Depot
Construction started on the railroad depot in Little Falls in 1899. It was designed by Cass Gilbert...
Florence Town Hall
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Meyer School In St Augusta
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome to Hanska
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Cobden
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Welcome To Dotson
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Exploring Sandstone
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Ruins of Sawyer School
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Red Wing Iron Works
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Milford Monument
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Hanover Bridge
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Old Wadena
Bend in the River Regional Park
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Jordan Brewery Complex
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Little Marais Inn
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Historic Franconia
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Green Lake Mounds
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moving Old Hibbing
Hollywood Town Hall
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lincoln Park In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The End of the Line in Currie
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Le Sueur Theater
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Dead Good Walks
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Chester Township Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Clarence R. Magney was born on January 11, 1883 and spent his childhood in the St. Croix River...
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 Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
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...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
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