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
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
All of Theodore and Louise Hamm’s children stayed close to their family home and business. Most...
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
District #28 School in Ramsey
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Eight Days in May Protests
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
The Gates of Stonebridge
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Saint Paul Hotel
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Robbinsdale Library
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Landmark Center In St Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Greater Minnesota
Randall Cooperative Creamery
It isn’t clear when this brick creamery was built in Randall--one source says 1916 and another...
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
The original movie theater in Aitkin showed silent films and wasn’t set up to show talkies. As the...
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Moderne New Ulm Library
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Meyer School In St Augusta
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Old School In Wolverton
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The End of the Line in Currie
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Endion School In Duluth
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Visiting Golden Gate
Finding The Past In Swatara
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
District 48 School Near Delano
Oxford Mill Ruin
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Enter Marlon Brando
Jordan Brewery Complex
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Red Wing Iron Works
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Exploring Ottawa
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
State Theater In Hutchinson
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Endion Depot In Duluth
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome To Dotson
Lost Highway 61
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
District 6 School in New Sweden
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Sandstone
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Florence Town Hall
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Moving Old Hibbing
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
The Little Marais Inn
The Le Sueur Theater
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Bend in the River Regional Park
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Hollywood Town Hall
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Almelund Creamery
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Historic Wasioja
The Milford Monument
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Wandering Around The Toimi School
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Hanover Bridge
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Duluth’s Incline Railway
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Duluth Homestead Project
Historic Franconia
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Welcome To Cobden
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Remembering Quadna Resort
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Dead Good Walks
Chester Township Cemetery
For some reason, I always seem to come across pretty rural cemeteries on the hottest days. I was on...
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Glader cemetery is located on a hill overlooking South Center Lake in Lindström. It is the oldest...
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
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 Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Winter At The Lamar School
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
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
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