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
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg and his wife Dora were the owners of a jewelry store in downtown Minneapolis in the...
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Swinford Townhomes
Wilder Public Baths
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Robbinsdale Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
District #28 School in Ramsey
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Greater Minnesota
Lost Highway 61
History buffs and curiosity seekers revel in finding a piece of the past. Stumbling across...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The original District 35 (Meyer) school was a log structure built around 1868. As the population of...
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
The Milford Monument
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Lincoln Park In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Moderne New Ulm Library
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Enter Marlon Brando
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Little Falls Depot
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
State Theater In Hutchinson
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Church of the Holy Cross
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Welcome to Hanska
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Le Sueur Theater
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Visiting Golden Gate
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Endion Depot In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Green Lake Mounds
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jordan Brewery Complex
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Little Marais Inn
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Red Wing Iron Works
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Welcome To Old Wadena
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
District 48 School Near Delano
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Endion School In Duluth
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Historic Wasioja
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Exploring Sandstone
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Finding The Past In Swatara
Hollywood Town Hall
Oxford Mill Ruin
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Ruins of Sawyer School
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Old Brewery In Preston
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Old School In Wolverton
Hanover Bridge
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Florence Town Hall
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
The Almelund Creamery
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Exploring Ottawa
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...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Amidst the tranquil beauty of the Wisconsin countryside, the weathered gravestones of the Garden...
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Golden Gate Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
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 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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...

